Ketil Björnstad - Best Of (Collection - 52 minutes piano playlist)

00:00 Ketil Bjørnstad -Agnes
04:18 Ketil Bjornstad - Prelude 13
10:45 Ketil Bjornstad - Sweetest Love
16:34 Ketil Bjornstad - The Sea - Part V
23:07 Ketil Bjornstad - Intimacy
27:57 Ketil Bjornstad - The Silence
32:45 Ketil Bjornstad - Serene
38:36 Ketil Björnstad - Reticence
44:14 Ketil Bjørnstad & David Darling - The River VII

Ketil Bjørnstad (born 25 April 1952 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian pianist, composer and author. Initially trained as a classical pianist, Bjørnstad discovered jazz at an early age and has embraced the emergence of "European jazz".

He is an artist on the ECM record label, but has also published some 20 books (predominantly novels) and a number of poetry and essay collections.

Bibliography:
Alene out (poems, 1972)
Closer (poems, 1973)
Nattsvermere (novel, 1974)
Kråker and fighters (novel, 1975)
Pavane (novel, 1976)
Winter Town (novel, 1977)
The country on the other side (novel, 1979)
Bingo! or: a virtue of necessity (novel, 1983)
Oda ! (documentary novel, 1983)
The personal motive (novel, 1985)
We accuse! Treholtsaken and legal protection (Revised Edition, 1986)
G-moll-balladen (documentary novel, 1986)
Conversations with Lill (portrait interview, 1986)
Oppstigning from the invisible (novel, 1988)
Storm (novel, 1989)
Twilightpossibilities (novel, 1990)
Villa Europa (novel, 1992)
The story about Edvard Munch (documentary novel, 1993)
Euro(novel, 1994)

Discography
1973 - Apning (Philips)
1974 - Berget Det Bla (Philips)
1975 - Tredje Dag (Philips)
1976 - Finnes Du Noensteds Ikveld (Philips)
1977 - Selena (Philips)
1978 - Leve Patagonia (Philips)(later issued as 2 CD set)
1979 - Svart Piano (Philips)
1980 - Tidevann (Philips)
1982 - Engler I Sneen
1983 - Aniara
1984 - Preludes Vol. 1 Uniton Records
1985 - Preludes Vol. 2 Uniton Records
1987 - Pianology
1988 - Karen Mowat-Suite
1990: The Shadow (KKV), poems by John Donne, (1562--1626)
1993: Water Stories (ECM)
1995: The Sea (ECM)
1996: The River (ECM)
1998: The Sea II (Grappa/ECM)
2000: Epigraphs (ECM)
2001: Grace (Emarcy), poems by John Donne, 1562--1626
2003: The Nest (Emarcy), poems by Harte Crane, 1899--1932
2004: Seafarer's Song (Universal Jazz)
2006: Floating (Emarcy)
2008: Life in Leipzig (ECM), with Terje Rypdal
2009: Remembrance (ECM)
2013: La Notte (ECM)
2014: Sunrise - A cantata on texts by Edvard Munch (ECM)